Parallel Worlds in Haruki Murakami's Literature: Focus on the Early Works

• Main Authors: Chen, Li-An, 陳俐安
• Other Authors: Yokoji, Akio
• Format: Others
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6bqkp7

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 日本語文學系碩士班 === 102 === 　The Works of Murakami Haruki were appreciated as the literature of New City dwellers of “No Generation” and his literature always indicate that the confrontation and confliction between system of the society and individuals. This thesis would analyze the relationship between individuals and individuals, and the relationship between individuals and system of society, and trying to find out the creative intention and the influence Murakami Haruki anticipated. 　This thesis is divided into three parts. The first part focused on Murakami’s first novel Hear the Wind Sing appearing the contact between the relationship between individuals and individuals, and the relationship between individuals and system of society as the origin of the relationship of parallel worlds. The second part using the work Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World which crystallized the word of “parallel worlds”, to studied his creative intention of “parallels worlds”. The third part is probing for the position of keeping changing characters in a parallel relationship in the work of Norwegian Wood. The relationship of “existence” and “absence” in parallel world was written as a mysterious way in Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but written as a real world in Norwegian Wood. 　Hence, this thesis concludes the relationship between individuals and system of society which analyzed in different point of views to confirmed why people admire the literature of Murakami Haruki.